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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
My personal favourite is the woman whose chicken laid eggs with "Christ is coming" etched on them. Turned out she was writing on the eggs herself and pushing them back up the chicken's bottom.
That's rape
And bestiality.
Fuck yeah hell is eternal 🤘🏻😎 We will fight in the Skeleton War forever, bathed in everlasting fire ! Who could ever get bored of that much fun !?
This guy literally can't do anything wrong
Makes everything great -> obviously amazing leader
Fucks everything up -> this guy will save us from the fucked up world
You know the funny thing is there's actually a biblical calculation that puts the end of the world around 204X that several well known Christian Theoloegians calculated including Isaac Newton.
It seems odd to me that fanatics ignore this prediction and insist on accelerating the end times or claim that the rapture is tomorrow.
The other funny thing is all the insane level of violence and corruption that both Christian and Islamic eschatologies warn about in great detail.
If you're familiar with either source, the irony is astounding. People read a big fat warning about the end times and then decided "We can accelerate this and make it into heaven by playing the explicitly evil guys in this big fat warning".
Isaac Newton was also obsessed with alchemy, so...
Their own book literally says that nobody knows (or can know) the day. The "real" fanatics don't fall for the people who give specific dates. Probably because most of them were burnt before lol
Indeed. Evangelical MAGA really didn't read their book. It says that no one can accelerate or manufacture the time. If it happens, people will not realize what is going on until the last minute.
My dad is (was?) one of these. The dissonance was one of the reasons I rejected religion - their Bible tells them to be good stewards, but when asked why he supports stuff that harms the environment my dad's excuse was that the world was ending soon and only those who didn't get raptured would even be impacted by it.
I checked, the Bible doesn't contain some "shit on the environment if the world is ending soon" clause or exception.
It actually says the opposite: "He will put to ruin those ruining the earth"
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This is part of JD Vance and Peter Thiel's theological beliefs. They're "Rad Trads" - as is Steve Bannon. A radical group of extremist Catholics who are trying to destroy the world as they believe only if there's an apocalypse will Jesus return.
They should be treated as Religious Extremists, and terrorists, and everyone including the Pope should vocally condemn them.
I wonder if they are actually believers. Or if they just recognize how to perpetuate and foment belief in the public.
JD (Vance is not his real name) is an admitted liar so I would not believe a word he says. The truth is fungible according to his agenda as he as said.
I think not, they are just accelerationists
Yea, it occurs to me that Thiel is doing these talks, and making them private, and managing to keep them from leaking, to make them mythic/mysterious.
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Hopefully the end times will be coming for them. Everyone gets their own little apocalypse. Just leave us out of it.
This is the mentality that will have absolute power over our lives, for the rest of this century.
They’ve been saying the end times are coming since before I was born.
Well, I'm about to join them
The nuclear clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been in all history
They've been saying it pretty much since about 30 seconds after Christ died, and I'm sure they're all just a reskinning of even older apocalypse myths.
Most of the Rapture beliefs are more based on late 19th and early 20th-century fanfic.
I remember when the rapture was supposed to happen last year. I remember when 2020-2022 was to be the end. I remember when 2012 was the end times. I remember when 2000 was the apocalypse. I remember multiple other years prior to that saying the same thing. There are books in the Bible that talk about it happening soon and they were made canon centuries ago. The monopoly on wanting the end isn’t even Christians’. Just this month I saw a video advertised on youtube still pushing that Nibiru collision nonsense that pops up every year or two. None of these people know anything about the end of the world.
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They been saying it a lot longer than that. The 7th Day Adventists, who own all the hospitals in my area, are a Mormon splinter group who followed a guy who had calculated the exact date of the end of the Earth, and that was way back in the late 19th century. He kept re-calculating and moving the date.
End of the world predictors have been around far longer than that.
They're a Millerite splinter not Mormon when the Millerites imploded after multiple failed predictions it created several new religions, the biggest two being being Jehovah's witnesses and Seventh day advenentists. They came out of the same religious spring as the Mormons and Christian scientists for example but are more or less unrelated outside of being nominally Christian. There used to be more groups from that era but most of them were Christian socialists and were more or less all killed off by the 1950s.
Sorry about the pedantry but my kin have been fueding with the fucken Seventh Day Adventists since they moved into what is now Loma Linda California back in the early 1900s.
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Because they're a death cult.
The "Rad Trads" - Catholic radical traditionalists including JD Vance and Peter Thiel believe they're bringing about the apocalypse so that Jesus will return.
So yes, death cult.
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May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the rapture or end of the world or whatever. I remember this because it was also my wedding day. Lived outside DC at the time and there were all these people holding signs and wearing shirts about it. We joked about getting a few for my bachelor party ("ha ha the world is ending on that day ... FOR HIM!"). Never did it. But I had a great wedding.
The problem is that he's in the position to make it happen, one way or another. There is no future consequences that can be imposed on those bringing about the end of the future itself.
Christianity is a death cult.
Last time the rapture was no fun...it is only fun if they fuck shit up and take everyone with them...
What they seem to be missing is that the beast, and crew, precipitate the rapture and do the persecution while the righteous are the persecuted.
End times, just like the ones in 2012 right? Look at how that turned out LMFAO
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Why do they look so inbred?
If they were any more inbred they'd be sandwiches.
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